Cross department research present new insights into education and social care background of children who get into trouble.

Peer research from PRT into the Cat A review process reveals an opaque, inconsistent & difficult to navigate system.

This is a guest post by Dr Nicole Renehan of Durham University. Practitioners working in criminal justice and domestic abuse interventions are increasingly encountering neurodivergent men within ...

A recent (1 April 2026) report from the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee warns that the Prevent referral mechanism is unprepared to deal with reality of modern extremism. The report says that ...

Last week’s (published 3 April 2026) quarterly Criminal Justice Statistics (which cover the period ending 31 December 2025) reveal the latest trends in the volume of cases going ...

Restricted patients are a hidden population within our justice and mental health systems but there were 7,998 people detained ...

The Home Office has just (13 April 2026) published the latest findings from its Wastewater Analysis for Narcotics Detection (WAND) Programme which takes samples from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs ...

This is a guest post by Amy Loughery, Chris Devany & Laura Bainbridge who share their work on when exploited children exploit ...

This is a guest post by Lauren Hayman who shares the findings from a series of interviews with men in Welsh prisons. Lauren Hayman is a graduate of the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology ...

A new (23 April 2026) joint MoJ/OHID report analyses the outcomes of prison leavers in England between August 2018 and December 2022 receiving substance misuse treatment. It assesses mortality and ...

A new (3 April 2026) Prison Reform Trust report reveals an urgent need for age-appropriate support for the growing number of young adults (aged 18 to 24) serving long prison sentences. There are ...